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Overview: The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will be held on April 26-27, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Conference aims to promote fruitful collaboration between participants and to encourage their integration into a community of legal scholars.

It is believed that law acts as a tool for social transformation. In today’s world, most aspects of
human behaviour are regulated by legal rules and principles. From policies affecting the poor
to regulating economic and political agendas between powerful nations, law plays an important
role in shaping the future for coming generations. However, in the context of changing sociopolitical
scenarios around the world, there is a need to re-evaluate our understanding of

The University of Exeter invites papers for the upcoming conference Legal Resilience in an Era of Hybrid Threats April 8-10, 2019.

Proposals addressing the following questions and themes are particularly welcome, as are inter-disciplinary, theoretical and case-study based approaches:

• What is legal resilience? What is its potential as an analytical concept and as a policy framework? What are its potential shortcomings? What are the key elements of legal resilience and what does it mean for a legal system to be resilient? How do we measure legal resilience?

Symposium date: Friday, April 12, 2019 in Carbondale, Illinois at SIU School of Law

Call for Papers: The Southern Illinois Law Journal invites proposals from faculty and professionals to present at the upcoming annual symposium, which will focus on public health surveillance. Accepted presenters will have the opportunity to participate on an interdisciplinary panel of scholars, and to have their papers published in a special symposium issue of the journal.

Call For Papers
Rule of Law in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

01 Feb 2019 - 02 Feb 2019, Rome, Italy

The Rule of Law for Development Institute (the Institute) at Loyola University Chicago School of Law will convene a conference on Rule of Law in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda to be held at Loyola's Rome, Italy campus on 1-2 February 2019. The conference is being co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law.

The Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law seeks paper proposals for the Eleventh Feminist Legal Theory Conference. We hope you will join us for this exciting conference on Friday, April 12, 2019. The theme is the #MeToo movement.